"In Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel ""The Narrow Road to the Deep North"" (2013), the main character, Dorrigo Evans, meets the love of his life at the launch of ""Angry Penguins"". Angry Penguins Angry Penguins was an Australian literary and artistic avant-garde movement of the 1940s. The movement was stimulated by a modernist magazine of the same name published by the surrealist poet Max Harris, who founded the magazine in 1940, at the age of 18. ""Angry Penguins"" was first published in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. The title is derived from a phrase in Harris' poem ""Mithridatum of"
"was awarded to the American writer George Saunders, for ""Lincoln in the Bardo"". Previous winners include Philip Roth and Lydia Davis. The 2014 award went to author Richard Flanagan for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, with his prize presented by Chair of judges AC Grayling at London's Guildhall. It was the first year in which eligibility for the award was expanded to include any novel written in English and published in the UK. Man also sponsors the Man Booker International Prize. This £50,000 prize is awarded each year on the basis of a single book translated into English,"
"Adrian Flanagan Adrian Flanagan (born 1 October 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British author, sailor and sculptor. On 21 May 2008, Flanagan achieved the first ever single-handed vertical circumnavigation (via the geographical poles) of the globe. Flanagan has written three books: ""The Cape Horners' Club"" (Bloomsbury hardback 2017),""Over the Top: The First Lone Yachtsman to Sail Vertically Around the World"" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback 2008, paperback 2009) and ""Cobra"" (Hale Publishing 2001)"". Flanagan now works as a sculptor. Harnessing his childhood experiences in Africa and his love of nature, he specializes in wildlife. Working in clay, polymer clay, Plastilin"
"also written biographies of Australian rules footballers: ""Richo"" (2010) on Matthew Richardson and ""The Short Long Book"" (2015) on Michael Long. Martin Flanagan is one of six children of Arch Flanagan, a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s. He grew up in Tasmania, and now lives in Melbourne. One of his three brothers is Tasmanian author, historian and film director Richard Flanagan. Martin Flanagan (journalist) Martin Joseph Flanagan (1955—) is an Australian journalist and author. He writes on sport, particularly Australian rules football. Flanagan also writes"
"and mixed media, his work is cast in bronze as limited editions. Adrian Flanagan Adrian Flanagan (born 1 October 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a British author, sailor and sculptor. On 21 May 2008, Flanagan achieved the first ever single-handed vertical circumnavigation (via the geographical poles) of the globe. Flanagan has written three books: ""The Cape Horners' Club"" (Bloomsbury hardback 2017),""Over the Top: The First Lone Yachtsman to Sail Vertically Around the World"" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback 2008, paperback 2009) and ""Cobra"" (Hale Publishing 2001)"". Flanagan now works as a sculptor. Harnessing his childhood experiences in Africa and his love"
"Bill Flanagan Bill Flanagan is an American author, television executive and radio host. He was born in Rhode Island in 1955 and graduated from Brown University in 1977. His books include ""Written in My Soul"" (1986), ""Last of the Moe Haircuts"" (1986), ""U2 at the End of the World"" (1995), and the novels ""A&R"" (2000), ""New Bedlam"" (2007) and ""Evening's Empire"" (2010). From 1995 until 2015 he was an executive at MTV Networks, retiring as Executive Vice President of the Viacom Music Group. As EVP/Editorial Director of MTV Networks, Flanagan oversaw the series ""VH1 Storytellers"" and ""CMT Crossroads"". He has"
"including Kittitian Caryl Phillips (who has lived in the UK since one month of age); Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian immigrant to the United States; Anthony Kellman from Barbados, who divides his time between Barbados and the United States; Andrea Levy of the United Kingdom; Jamaicans Alecia McKenzie, who has lived in Belgium, Singapore and France, and Colin Channer and Marlon James, the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel ""A Brief History of Seven Killings"" (2014) (as well as ""John Crow's Devil"", ""The Book of Night Women"", the unpublished screenplay ""Dead Men"", and the short story ""Under Cover of Darkness""),"
"Songs on the Beatles Channel. Flanagan acts as Ombudsman of the Sundance Channel series """". He also appears on air as an essayist on ""CBS News Sunday Morning"". Bill Flanagan Bill Flanagan is an American author, television executive and radio host. He was born in Rhode Island in 1955 and graduated from Brown University in 1977. His books include ""Written in My Soul"" (1986), ""Last of the Moe Haircuts"" (1986), ""U2 at the End of the World"" (1995), and the novels ""A&R"" (2000), ""New Bedlam"" (2007) and ""Evening's Empire"" (2010). From 1995 until 2015 he was an executive at MTV"
"makes his achievement all the more remarkable."" Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961, the fifth of six children. He is descended from Irish convicts transported during the Great Famine in Ireland to Van Diemen's Land. Flanagan's father was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway and one of his three brothers is Australian rules football journalist Martin Flanagan. Flanagan grew up in the remote mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania's western coast. Flanagan left school at the age of 16 but returned to study at the University of Tasmania, where he was president of the Tasmania University Union"
"in Manhattan, which he ran for fifteen years. Forced out of the space due to increased rent, the Night Cafe closed in September 2007. Brian Flanagan Brian Flanagan is an Irish-American former member of the American radical left organizations Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Weather Underground Organization (WUO). Flanagan was born on October 20, 1946, and raised in Manhattan, New York. Both his parents were Irish. His father was an advertising executive and his mother a teacher, stockbroker and antique dealer. Flanagan was introduced to politics by his parents who supported Illinois Democratic governor Adlai E. Stevenson,"
"he was Professor of English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in Irish literature. He was a tenured Full Professor in the English Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement. He and his wife spent much of their time in Ireland. They lived in East Setauket, Long Island. Flanagan was also a successful novelist. His first novel, ""The year of the French"", won the National Book Critics Award for fiction in 1979 and was adapted into a TV series, which was broadcast in Ireland in 1982. He died in 2002"
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, ""The Graveyard Book"" (2008). In 2013, ""The Ocean at the End of"
"people weren’t happy with all the literary stuff; the literary people weren’t happy with all the genre stuff.” John Langan John Langan (born July 6, 1969) is an American author and writer of contemporary horror. Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection, and in 2016, a Bram Stoker Award winner for his novel The Fisherman. He is on the Board of Directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards. John Langan received his Masters of Arts degree from State University of New York at New Paltz and"
"Mark Richard Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, ""The Ice at the Bottom of the World"" and ""Charity,"" a bestselling novel, ""Fishboy"", and ""House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home"". Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas and Virginia. As heard on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR: He grew up in the 1960s in a racially divided rural town in Virginia. His family was poor. He was born with deformed hips and spent years in"
"fresh water. Finnegan currently resides in New York. Finnegan's younger brother, Michael Finnegan, is a national political correspondent for ""The Los Angeles Times."" William Finnegan William Finnegan (born 1952) is a staff writer at ""The New Yorker"" and author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing. Finnegan was born in New York City in 1952 to the eldest of four children to Patricia and"
"Jim Hougan James Richard Hougan (born October 14, 1942) is an American author, investigative reporter and documentary film producer. A best-selling novelist in both the United States and Europe, his books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is best known for ""Secret Agenda,"" perhaps the first investigative work to question the orthodox narrative of the Watergate scandal as propounded by ""The Washington Post"". Born James Richard Edwards in Brooklyn, N.Y., he graduated from William Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin (1960). In 1966, he earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Soon"
"John Langan John Langan (born July 6, 1969) is an American author and writer of contemporary horror. Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection, and in 2016, a Bram Stoker Award winner for his novel The Fisherman. He is on the Board of Directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards. John Langan received his Masters of Arts degree from State University of New York at New Paltz and his Master of Philosophy from The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is an instructor at SUNY New Paltz, where"
"In 2018, Flanagan created, directed, produced, edited and wrote the Netflix supernatural horror series ""The Haunting of Hill House"", based on Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name. Flanagan will write and direct the horror film ""Doctor Sleep"", based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, itself the sequel to his previous novel ""The Shining"". Ewan McGregor will star as the older version of Danny Torrance in the film, which is set to be released in January 2020. Flanagan married actress-writer Kate Siegel in February 2016. They have two children, one son and one daughter. Flanagan has"
"fellows. Harvard University people. Lake Oswego, Oregon, notable people. Scottish emigrants to the United States. The Oregonian people. Richard Read Richard Read (born 1957) is an American journalist and investigative reporter at NerdWallet. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was a senior writer and foreign correspondent for ""The Oregonian,"" working for the Portland, Oregon newspaper from 1981 to 1986 and 1989 until 2016. Read has reported from more than 60 countries and all seven continents, covering wars in Cambodia and Afghanistan and disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. He won his"
"Tom Flanagan (political scientist) Thomas Eugene ""Tom"" Flanagan, (born March 5, 1944) is an American-born author, conservative political activist, and former political science professor at the University of Calgary. Flanagan has been on ""research and scholarship leave"" from the University of Calgary since January 2013. He also served as an advisor to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper until 2004. Flanagan has focused on challenging Native and Métis rights. In connection with his multi-year research and publications on Louis Riel, Flanagan published a reinterpretation of the North-West Rebellion, defending the federal government's response to Métis land claims. He began publishing works"
"The Oxford American, and ""The Southern Review"", and he has been a correspondent for the BBC. He was also screenwriter for the film Stop-Loss. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer Allen and their three sons. Mark Richard Mark Richard is an American short story writer, novelist, screenwriter, and poet. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections, ""The Ice at the Bottom of the World"" and ""Charity,"" a bestselling novel, ""Fishboy"", and ""House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home"". Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas and"
"starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, ""Blood Work"". In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, ""The Lincoln Lawyer"", hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent #1 New York Times bestsellers include ""Two Kinds of Truth"", ""The Late Show"", ""The Wrong Side of Goodbye"", ""The Crossing"", ""The Burning Room"", ""The Gods of Guilt"", and ""The Black Box"". His books, which have been translated into 39 languages, have garnered him many awards. Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004. Connelly was born in"
"featured in the critically acclaimed Joe Berlinger documentary Intent To Destroy about the Armenian Genocide. In 2018, the New York Times published his piece, ""My Armenia,"" which was his description of his return to his ancestral homeland. (all from The Press of Appletree Alley, Lewisburg, PA) Peter Balakian Peter Balakian (, born June 13, 1951) is an Armenian American poet, writer and academic, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016. Balakian was born in 1951, in Teaneck, New Jersey to an Armenian family and"
"Michael Patrick Flanagan Michael Patrick Flanagan (born November 9, 1962) is a former captain in the United States Army, a practicing attorney, and a Republican Party politician from Chicago, Illinois. Flanagan is best known for his victory over eighteen-term Congressman Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski in the 1994 United States midterm elections. His was one of fifty-four Republican victories in the House of Representatives that allowed the party to take control of both houses of Congress, as part of the Republican Revolution. Flanagan was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 9, 1962, the second of five sons in"
"(2011), ""The Muppets"" (2011), ""The Five-Year Engagement"" (2012), ""This Is 40"" (2012), ""Sex Tape"" (2014) and ""The Discovery"" (2017). His performance as the late author David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film ""The End of the Tour"" was met with critical acclaim, earning him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. Segel was born January 18, 1980, in Los Angeles, to Jillian (née Jordan) and Alvin Segel, a lawyer. He grew up in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. His father is Jewish, whereas his mother is Christian. He has stated that he was raised Jewish, as well"
"Walt Flanagan Walter Flanagan (born October 23, 1967) is a comic book store manager, reality television personality, podcaster, and comic book artist. Flanagan is a long-time friend of Kevin Smith, and (according to Smith's book ""Silent Bob Speaks"") it was Flanagan who turned Smith onto comic books. He currently manages Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey. Flanagan was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, grew up in nearby Highlands and attended Henry Hudson Regional High School with Smith. Flanagan is co-host of the ""Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!"" podcast with longtime friends Bryan Johnson and Brian Quinn."
"Jeffrey Kluger Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is a senior writer at ""Time"" magazine and author of nine books on various topics, such as ""The Narcissist Next Door"" (2014); ""Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio"" (2005); ""The Sibling Effect"" (2011); and ""Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13"" (1994). The latter work was the basis for Ron Howard's film ""Apollo 13"" (1995). He is also the author of two books for young adults: ""Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats"" (2007) and ""Freedom Stone"" (2011). Kluger attended Pikesville High School in Pikesville, Maryland, a northwest"
"the Irish Famine from a human perspective for the channels RTÉ One, The History Channel UK and History Television and the project has been selected for a special screening by the Toronto International Film Festival. Recent credits include: Director of ""The Men Who Built America"" (Emmy Winner, 2013); Editor of ""Banaz a Love Story"" (Emmy Winner, 2013); Producer/Director of ""The Radharc Squad"" (IFTA Winner 2013), Director/Cinematographer of ""Lifers"" (Signis Winner 2014). His short film ""Angel"" has won 7 international Awards including the Milan International Film Festival (2013). Ruán Magan Ruán Magan (born 1968) is a filmmaker based in Ireland, working"
"Nautilus Book Award for Investigative Journalism as well as the Nautilus Book Award Grand Prize. He coauthored ""Kuei: a Conversation on Racism"", book about racism against First Nations People in Canada, written in epistolary form with the Innu poet Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine. His most recent novel, ""Into the Sun"", about the Civilian Surge in Afghanistan, won the 2017 Midwest Book Award for Literary Fiction and has been described by National Book Award-winning author Phil Klay as a ""Ferociously intelligent and intensely gripping portrait of the expatriate community in Kabul."" It was a CLMP Firecracker Award nominee, was long-listed for the Prix"
"Thomas Flanagan (writer) Thomas Flanagan (November 5, 1923 – March 21, 2002) was an American university professor and novelist. He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father was a dentist, his mother a homemaker. All four of his grandparents had come to the United States from County Fermanagh, Ireland. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He graduated from Amherst College in 1945. He married Jean Parker, a nurse, in 1949. They had two daughters, Caitlin and Ellen. He received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University. From 1960 to 1978"
"Pickings"" in 2016; his earlier novels, ""The Far Tribes"" and ""Yellowstone"", were collected together as an omnibus edition. Wheeler was married to Sue Hart, a professor at Montana State University Billings, who died in the summer of 2014. The couple divided their time between homes in Livingston, Montana, on the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park, and Billings, Montana. Richard S. Wheeler Richard Shaw Wheeler is an American author and former newspaper editor. He is best known for his novels set in the American West, including the ""Barnaby Skye"" series. Wheeler was the 2001 recipient of the Owen Wister Award"
"the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Forward Prize for Poetry and most recently the ""Granta"" 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists. He chaired the board of judges of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize competition. He has been a Guest Director at the Cheltenham Festival, an Associate Tutor at Goldsmiths College and on the Board of the Arvon Foundation. For four years, until 2013, he was on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature. He is married with two daughters. Romesh Gunesekera Romesh Gunesekera FRSL (born 1954) is a Sri Lankan-born British author, who was"